Fly sheet for newspapers



April 13 1926.

A. L. LENGEL FLY SHEET FOR NEWSPAPERS File an. 12, 92'

7" flyenfor a' fi erf Legal Patented Apr. 13, 192%.

UNITE srnras ALBERT L, LENGEL, 0F BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

FLY SHEET FOR NEWSPAPERS.

Application filed January 15, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. LENGEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bakersfield, in the county of Kern and State of California,have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly Sheets for Newspapers,of which the following is a SPQClii cation.

This invention relates to improvements in newspapers. V

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved newspaper andmethod for making the same, whereby stui'iing and squeezing may begreatly eliminated, thereby materially increasing the etliciency in thecomposing rooms of newspaper offices.

It is a further object of the lnvention to provide a newspaper having afly sheet provided with an extension mtcgral therewlth adapted to carrysurplus printed matter, and to employ the conventional s1ze of paper andthe conventional machinery in newspaper printing oflices for producingthis fly sheet.

lVith the foregoing and other olnects in view which will be mademanifest in the following detailed description and pointed out in theappended claims, reference 1s had to the accompanying drawings for anillustrative embodiment of the invention, where- Figure 1 is adiagrammatieal view illustrating a newspaper curved plate press;

Fig. 2 is a perspective vlew of the. improved newspaper;

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the newspaper under construction,illustrating the manner in which the improved fly sheet. may be providedupon a press employing a double widthroll of paper.

Referring to the accompanying drawings wherein similar referencecharacters desig- K' nate similar parts throughout, it has beencustomary heretofore to print newspapers of a plurality of separatesheets, one of which is designated at on Fig. 2. Thesesheets are thecomplete width ofthe newspaper when unfolded. Each of the sheets bearsfour complete pages of printed matter, two

pages being on one side of the sheet and two Serial No. 2,519.

- pages being upon the opposite side of the sheet. During thecomposition of the newspaper, if it is found that a surplus of printedmatter is to be used, which is less than four pages, it has been commonpractice to insert in the paper what is commonly called a fly sheet.This fly sheet is in height equal to the height of the remaining sheetsof the newspaper. a Its width is only one-half as great as the width ofthe remaining sheets of the newspaper. Upon this fly sheet which isdesignated at 11 upon Fig. 2, there are printed two pages of printedmatter, so that the fly sheet takes care of the surplus which may remainafter the full sheets 10 have been composed. The full sheets 10 areprinted upon rolls of paper equal to their complete width and the flysheets llbearing two pages of printed matter are printed upon rolls halfthe width of the width of the'sheets 10.

It has been frequently experienced, howeyer, that the printed matter isof such quantlty that it cannot be placed upon a specified number offull sized sheets, nor can itbe conveniently placed upon these fullsized sheets with these additional fly sheets. When this occurs, it iscustomary practice to squeeze or stufl the paper, that is, to either addadditional printed matter so as to fill out an extra page or to cut outenough of the printed matter so that an additional sheet or half sheetmay be dispensed with.

y In order to eliminate this stufling and squeez 111g, my improved flysheet which is generally designated at 11, having one page of printedmatter printed on one side thereof and another printed page upon itsother side, is provided with an extension 12. This extension is less inwidth than the width of the fly sheet 11 and is preferably equal toabout one-half of the width of one page. Upon this extension there maybe arranged advertising matter, supplementary matter, or other printedmatter, which printed matter is printed upon bothsides of the extension12. The extension 12 hearing one-half of a page upon each of its sidesenables the newspaper when completed to have an odd number of pages ofprinted matter, whereas, heretofore, newspapers carrying theconventional fly sheet had 7 an even number of printed pages, and thosenewspapers which did not employ any fly sheet whatsoever necessarilycarried a number of printed pages divisible by tour, there being fourpages to each of the sheets 10.

In making" up the news xpcr, I employ in making my improved tly sheet, aroll oi paper of three-quarters the width of the full sized roll ofpaper. This size of roll isnow upon the market and has been frequentlyemployed in printing newspapers having six column pages, whereas thefull sized width of roll is used for printing newspapers hav-- ing eightcolumn pages. As indicated in Fig. 1, 13 represents the roll of paper offull width, which has its paper pass over the guide rollers Iibetweenthe lower matri-x roller 15 and its corresponding impression roller 16and then pass between the upper matrix or plate roller 17 and itscorresponding impression roller 18. Thepaper then passes over guiderollers 19 and 20. The fly sheet of my improved construction having theextension 12 is formed from the roll or paper designated at 21, which isof three-quarters the width of a full si'ed roll of paper. This paperpasses over guide rollers 22 and 23 and between the lower and uppermatrices or plate rollers 24tai1d 25 respectively and theircorresponding mpression rollers 26 and 27. r-rtte-r passing over theguide roller 23, the paper upon the roller 21 passes about the guideroller 20 and is placed in contact with the paper upon the full sizedroll 13. The other sheets forming the newspaper which are printed uponpaper of full width may be also brought about the guide roller 20, asindicated at 28. After the separate strips of paper pass around theguide roller 20, they may pass between folding rollers 29, which foldthe paper and the paper may then be cut as by a cutting roller 30. Itthe full width roll of paper is of the width equal to the width of oneof the sheets 10, the paper upon the roll 21 has one edge so arrangedthat it coincides with one edge upon the paper on the roll 13. In Fig.3, showing the paper as having been folded, this edge indicated at 31 ofthe fly sheet coincides with or is superimposed upon the edge 32 of oneof the sheets 10. When the paper is "folded, the sheet 10 provides fourpages of printed matter. The fly sheet 11 provides two full pages ofprinted matter and the extension 12 integral vith the fly sheet 11provides two half pages of printed matter. Some newspapers employpresses which use, what is commonly called, a double width roll of paperfor forming the sheets 10, that is, that the width of the roll of paper13 may be twice the width of one of the sheets 10. These are printedside by side and the sh fits 10 are formed by cutting the paper from thedouble width roll in half. The e three-quarters width roll of paper isalso on the market for use upon presses employing six column pages andprinting the two papers simultaneously and then cutting. In suchpresses, I employ the improved fly sheet by using the strip. of paperfrom a double width roll, as indicated at The paper from thethree-quarters width of a double width roll. is indicated at 3a. Inarranging the paper, the center line of the three-quarters width ofpaper 34: is superimposed above the center line of the double width roll88. The strips of paper are then cut from this center line, indicated at35, which brings the side edge of the fly sheet 11 next to one edge ofthe sheets 10 so -t'ormed. The divided strips of the paper which areformed by cutting upon the center line are then folded upon the line 36,resulting in the newspaper ready to be cut by the cutting roller 30.

From the above it is seen that an inr proved fly sheet is provided,using paper of conventional, size, which fly sheet carries an extensionhaving two half pages ot printed matter, and that a method is providedby which the presses used in the ordinary newspaper o-iiices may beemployed without modification or alteration.

Although I preferably employ the rolls of paper of three-quarters widthor threequarters of a double width roll, because of the fact that theyare used commonly by newspaper ofiices, I contemplate within the scopeof the invention to use other sizes of paper, it found desirable. Byusing other sizes, the extension 12 of the fly sheet 11 may be greateror less than one-half the width of one page of the newspaper, varyingbetween the width of one column and the width of seven columns or thenumber of columns of a full page minus one.

It will be understood that various changes in the detail of constructionmay be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the inventionas defined by the appended claims.

I claim: I

l. A newspaper comprising a plurality of sheets of four pages each, anda fly sheet of two pages, said fly sheet having an extension of lessWidth than the width of a page, said extension having printed matterthereon.

2. A newspaper having a fly sheet provided with an extension, saidextension having printed matter thereon and being smaller in size thanthe size of a page.

A newspaper having a fly sheet provided with an extension, saidextension being; in height, equal to the height of the other. sheets ofthe newspaper and being in width less than the width of the pages of thenewspaper and having printed matter thereon.

1 eeoeeo 3 4. A newspaper comprising one or more 5. A newspaper having afly sheet prosheets of four pages each, and a fly sheet viding twopages, and an extension integral being equal in height to the height ofsaid therewith providing two half pages. 10 sheets, and in width greaterthan the width In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 of one page andless than the width of two name to this specification.

pages, said fly sheet having printed matter thereon. ALBERT L. LENGEL.

